Fillon focuses on student welfare
The French Education Minister has promised priority for students' social needs and called for greater international competitiveness in higher education as a growing majority of universities adopt the...
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NZ puts brake on uni bids
The New Zealand Government is to change the law establishing new universities so that any proposal must be in the "national interest", regardless of whether it meets other criteria set out in the...
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Russians demand the best of British
Young Russians show a sophisticated awareness of British higher education as highly qualified applicants increasingly cherry-pick courses and universities. Most inquiries about undergraduate and...
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Do not bank on Bush or Kerry's election pledges
Both US presidential candidates will tell universities exactly what they want to hear, warns Robert Hauptman. Higher education in the US is in flux. More than 15 million Americans attend 4,168...
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Gary Day
Intellectuals should speak out against social inclusion and keep the tasteless working class away from our universities. Those of us concerned about the university being swamped by working-class...
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On the cliff edge: not jumping...
Is the incessant bad press inducing a little paranoia in the higher echelons of the Conservative Party? Posing for The Times Higher 's photographer at the Tory conference this week, Tim Collins, the...
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... but doing a little climbing
Such hesitancy vanished when Mr Collins took the stage. But did his conference speech betray a desire for a more senior post in the Conservative Shadow Cabinet? Mr Collins won wave after wave of...
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Mind your peas and qs
The National Union of Teachers seems to have gone upmarket now that it has moved its travelling circus to the last of the three party conferences. Its fish and chip supper, a hot ticket at the Labour...
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Sexing up the Tories?
While the Labour Party attracted Bono, the megastar lead singer of rock group U2, it looked as if the Tories were going to have to rely on the decidedly less glamourous Rick Wakeman, former...
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Can't make a job Offa yet
Back in the real world, finding someone to be the Office for Fair Access bogeyman is proving harder than anticipated. Those involved in the recruitment process for the director tactfully describe it...
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Nation of old chestnuts
Oxford University Press defied cynics by getting all 60 volumes of its Dictionary of National Biography out on schedule last week - a launch date set optimistically in 1992. Speaking at last week's...
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My revolting past: pipes, tweed and velveteen jeans
In the late 1960s, Peter Hennessy established his political views at Cambridge but was on neither side of the Senate House occupation. What did you do during the Senate House occupation?" is a...
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Why I... think women are being exploited by the university system
It is no surprise that recent research by the Association of University Teachers has found that women trying to establish a career as academics are more likely than men to find themselves used as...
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No escaping the F-word
Finance is tougher than ever for students, so we must offer more aid and advice, says Deian Hopkin. As the dust settles over the Higher Education Bill debate, the focus of attention in higher...
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Past relationships to rekindle
UCL is building an active alumni community for many more reasons than fundraising, writes Malcolm Grant. There is every reason why the UK needs to aspire to match the share of individual donations...